Big Brother 8: Jonathan Durden admits cocaine addiction

Big Brother star Jonathan Durden has admitted that he is addicted to using cocaine and prostitutes.

The businessman came clean after the News of the World discovered that he had spent £3,760 on 16 call girls in the month before he entered the Big Brother house.

“I’m admitting I have addictions because that’s the first step to recovery,” Jonathan told the newspaper. “I’ve hit the bottom and there’s a sense of relief in being caught out. I should be thanking you – you might actually have saved my life.”

Durden, who decided to leave the house this week after being told that his grandmother had died, has now been dumped by his fiancée Caroline Peal.

“The wedding’s off. Caroline’s finished it and I don’t blame her,” he explained. “It’s not up to me if we get back together. I still love her very much and I think she still loves me. But I really hurt her with my addictions and now I need to control them. My two children, my mother, friends and business colleagues now know everything, too.

“I don’t know where it leaves me business-wise. But it leaves me without the woman I wanted to spend my life with. I’ve lost the lot. It’s cost me dear but it’s what I deserve. I was using a couple of grams of cocaine several times a week. Then, after taking the drugs, I’d call an agency for girls.”

Jonathan will now check into The Priory clinic to receive rehabilitation treatment.